Module Idea/Suggestion
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality. I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you? A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database. I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think? Cheers, -- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project. I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide. -- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Hey Ken, This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Deploy module would love your help! I have the week off next week and I plan to spend as much of it as needed getting to the goal of a beta-quality release (I have a version that is very close, but a lot of it hasn't been checked in.) At that point I will be looking for a lot of testing so please do get in touch. Greg Dunlap gdd@heyrocker.com -----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Jon Antoine Sent: Thu 5/29/2008 9:40 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion Hey Ken, This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Hi Greg, I will set up a test site this week and begin exploring/testing the deploy module. Once I get a feel for it, I'll look at offering suggestions or help with coding depending on how my schedule looks. I look forward to working with the deployment team. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Greg Dunlap <gdunlap@seattletimes.com> wrote:
Deploy module would love your help! I have the week off next week and I plan to spend as much of it as needed getting to the goal of a beta-quality release (I have a version that is very close, but a lot of it hasn't been checked in.) At that point I will be looking for a lot of testing so please do get in touch.
Greg Dunlap gdd@heyrocker.com
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Jon Antoine Sent: Thu 5/29/2008 9:40 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion
Hey Ken,
This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link.
-- Cheers,
Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
I normally use a mix of Version Control, backup_migrate, and rsync myself. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Greg Dunlap <gdunlap@seattletimes.com> wrote:
Deploy module would love your help! I have the week off next week and I plan to spend as much of it as needed getting to the goal of a beta-quality release (I have a version that is very close, but a lot of it hasn't been checked in.) At that point I will be looking for a lot of testing so please do get in touch.
Greg Dunlap gdd@heyrocker.com
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Jon Antoine Sent: Thu 5/29/2008 9:40 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion
Hey Ken,
This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link.
-- Cheers,
Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine < antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Hey Darrel, Thanks for the input. I should have done a lot more research before posting this "new" module idea. Following the links provided by others, I have spent the entire day reading blog and forum posts about the issue. My eyes are blood shot and feel like they are going to pop out of my head. Thanks again for all the useful input. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry@gmail.com> wrote:
I normally use a mix of Version Control, backup_migrate, and rsync myself.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Greg Dunlap <gdunlap@seattletimes.com> wrote:
Deploy module would love your help! I have the week off next week and I plan to spend as much of it as needed getting to the goal of a beta-quality release (I have a version that is very close, but a lot of it hasn't been checked in.) At that point I will be looking for a lot of testing so please do get in touch.
Greg Dunlap gdd@heyrocker.com
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Jon Antoine Sent: Thu 5/29/2008 9:40 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion
Hey Ken,
This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link.
-- Cheers,
Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
The remote_macro module could also be useful in some situations, it uses services module to allow remote playback of captured FormAPI submissions. Dangerous if left turned on, but if you're adding a new content type and changing lots of settings not just in CCK, you can record them all, and not have to remember what you did. Lots of options it seems! On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Darrel,
Thanks for the input. I should have done a lot more research before posting this "new" module idea. Following the links provided by others, I have spent the entire day reading blog and forum posts about the issue. My eyes are blood shot and feel like they are going to pop out of my head. Thanks again for all the useful input.
-- Cheers,
Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry@gmail.com> wrote:
I normally use a mix of Version Control, backup_migrate, and rsync myself.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Greg Dunlap <gdunlap@seattletimes.com> wrote:
Deploy module would love your help! I have the week off next week and I plan to spend as much of it as needed getting to the goal of a beta-quality release (I have a version that is very close, but a lot of it hasn't been checked in.) At that point I will be looking for a lot of testing so please do get in touch.
Greg Dunlap gdd@heyrocker.com
-----Original Message----- From: development-bounces@drupal.org on behalf of Jon Antoine Sent: Thu 5/29/2008 9:40 AM To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion
Hey Ken,
This is exactly what I was brain storming only more sophisticated. I will definitely look into helping out with this module in any way possible. Thanks for the link.
-- Cheers,
Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Ken Rickard <agentrickard@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds identical to http://drupal.org/project/deploy -- the DeploymentAPI project.
I am sure heyrocker would appreciate any help you can provide.
-- Ken Rickard agentrickard@gmail.com http://ken.therickards.com
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Jon Antoine <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> wrote:
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
-- Regards Steven Jones
I think you should take a look at http://www.google.com/search?q=drupal+staging As you will see, this is an often discussed question. FGM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Antoine" <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:08 PM Subject: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality. I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you? A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database. I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think? Cheers, -- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Hey FGM, Obviously I was not searching for the right words when I looked for existing modules with this functionality. Thanks for the input. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:12 AM, FGM <fgm@osinet.fr> wrote:
I think you should take a look at
http://www.google.com/search?q=drupal+staging
As you will see, this is an often discussed question.
FGM
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Antoine" <antoinesolutions@gmail.com> To: <development@drupal.org> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:08 PM Subject: [development] Module Idea/Suggestion
I just had an idea for a module and thought I would throw it out to the development community and hopefully get some feedback on it. I searched Drupal and couldn't find anything already offering this functionality.
I'm not sure how common it is with everyone else, but every site I build has a test site on my test server and a live site on my live server. It is not a complicated process to push the test site to the live site, but it is a time consuming one, so why not have a module do it for you?
A beginning set of steps: 1. Backup up database 2. Upload Added/Modified/Deleted changes to files 3. Update database
The module would need to allow you to specify an ftp location to upload the files to and also allow permission to update the database.
I am not as advanced a programmer as some of you so I am hoping for any feedback. Let me know what you think?
Cheers,
-- Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions
Limited to taking multiple snapshots of a site and restoring them selectively, you might also try http://drupal.org/project/demo Daniel
Daniel, Thanks for this link as well. This wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but could prove to be a good alternative until the deploy module is ready for production use. -- Cheers, Jon Antoine, Owner Antoine Solutions On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com> wrote:
Limited to taking multiple snapshots of a site and restoring them selectively, you might also try http://drupal.org/project/demo
Daniel
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